One of the Best by Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes. Scenes from the play, which was loosely based on the Dreyfus affair. A super, Richard Archer Prince, conceived his murderous hatred for Terriss during a fake rehearsal for this piece.

"ONE OF THE BEST," AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE.

Photographs by Frank Dickins, Sloane Street S.W.

"One of the Best" is fitly named. Produced on Dec. 21,
Messrs. Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes' melodrama has run to crowded houses
ever since and is likely to do so for a long time to come. The play is
picturesque, for, with a keen instinct for effect, the authors decided on staging
a Highland regiment, than which there is surely nothing more striking in the whole range
of military uniform. They have also told a story, which, if un-English, has had the advantage of actuality
across the Channel in the shape of the Dreyfus incident; and, at a time when
the country palpitates with melodrama, it is not surprising that "One of
the Best" should be a great success. It is somewhat curious that
Mr. Terriss, the splendid hero of the piece, is the father-in-law of one of
the authors, Mr. Hicks, while Mr. Edward Sass, who, as Sir Archibald M'Gregor,
has to pronounce sentence on the young lieutenant, is the brother-in-law of the
other author, Mr. George Edwardes. Both the
authors,
by the way, were originally intended for the army.

Originally published by Greenwood Press as The Sans Pareil Theatre 1806-1819,
Adelphi Theatre 1819-1850: An Index to Authors, Titles, Performers, 1988, and The
Adelphi Theatre 1850-1900: An Index to Authors, Titles, Performers and Management, 1992.